Nowadays one of the most important energy sources is natural gas. By depletion of oil reservoirs in the world, natural gas will emerge as the future energy source for human life. One of the major concerns of gas suppliers is being able to supply this source of energy the entire year. This concern intensifies during more consuming seasons of the year when the demand for natural gas increases, r...

Hydrocarbons are sparingly soluble in aqueous solvents and to a first approximation their solubility can be described by the traditional Henry’s Law, which linearly relates the mole fraction in water to gas-phase partial pressure. The presence of amines in the aqueous phase increases hydrocarbon solubility over that in water, an effect referred to as “salting-in”. Commercial amine treating solu...

In this paper we introduce the DOLCE upper level ontology, the first module of a Foundational Ontologies Library being developed within the WonderWeb project. DOLCE is presented here in an intuitive way; the reader should refer to the project deliverable for a detailed axiomatization. A comparison with WordNet's top-level taxonomy of nouns is also provided, which shows how DOLCE, used in additi...

By applying the Corpus Pattern Analysis procedure (CPA, Hanks 2004) to the analysis of concordances for ca 1000 English, Italian and Spanish verbs conducted with the aim of acquiring their most recurrent patterns, intended as corpus-derived argument structures with specification of the expected semantic type for each argument position (i.e. [[Human]] attends [[Event]]), we compiled a list of ab...

It is widely observed that many physicians working in public health facilities do not put in the required effort and/or time in their jobs. At the same time, many public physicians remain highly motivated, working long hours for little financial reward in providing quality health services. This mix of providertypes poses fundamental challenges in the design of compensation mechanisms and monito...

The present sought to draw a comparison between Model Predictive Control performance and two other controllers named Simple PI and Selective PI in controlling large-scale natural gas transport networks. A nonlinear dynamic model of representative gas pipeline was derived from pipeline governing rules and simulated in SIMULINK® environment of MATLAB®. Control schemes were designed to provide a s...

Low caloric sweeteners have been investigated to substitute sugar as an advantage for both nutritional and medicinal purpose. These sugar substitutes are interesting particularly for concepts marketed under a natural claim. Among these, Stevia rebaudiana is a small shrub; its leaves are used as a sweetener. Serial dilution of the hot water Crude extract of S. rebaudiana leaves and aqueous solut...

In the current work, a framework is presented for amine solvent selection in gas treating process. Since the appropriate decision making in this field affects the capital and operational costs, multi attribute decision making (MADM) techniques were used to rank alternatives. The determination of criteria and alternatives is the most important aspect in the MADM. Criteria were divided into two c...

The development of germplasm with resistance to common scab and cold-induced sweetening is a high priority for the potato ( L.) industry. A mapping population was developed from mating two individuals of a diploid family generated by crossing the susceptible cultivated potato clone US-W4 to the highly resistant wild relative ( Bitter) clone '524-8'. Progeny were evaluated in replicated field tr...